Monster-of-the-Week: ...this portrait of a vampiric Joe Arpiao...
...by Chris Piascik, from the cover of the January 18 issue of Phoenix New Times, in which the case is made, for any who might require it, against voting for Arpiao for U.S. Senate.
Showing posts with label VAMPIRE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VAMPIRE. Show all posts
Thursday, January 25, 2018
COUNT JOE
Kind of hard to resist...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...this portrait of a vampiric Joe Arpiao...
...by Chris Piascik, from the cover of the January 18 issue of Phoenix New Times, in which the case is made, for any who might require it, against voting for Arpiao for U.S. Senate.
Monster-of-the-Week: ...this portrait of a vampiric Joe Arpiao...
...by Chris Piascik, from the cover of the January 18 issue of Phoenix New Times, in which the case is made, for any who might require it, against voting for Arpiao for U.S. Senate.
Thursday, November 2, 2017
PETYR PRINCIPLE
Happy November to all! Check out the latest issue of Phoenix Magazine, now on the stands, for my "Four Corners" column on Valley "fusion" eateries.
With Thor: Ragnarok, directed by the New Zealander Taika Waititi, opening this weekend...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...let's give the nod to Petyr (Ben Fransham), the most forbidding of the vampire roomies in What We Do in the Shadows...
...the horror comedy co-written (with Jemaine Clement), directed by and starring Waititi. This broad, silly mock-documentary was recently recommended to me, and made me laugh a lot.
"Vampires don't chat," said screenwriter Jimmy Sangster, explaining why he didn't write any dialogue for Christopher Lee in 1966's Dracula, Prince of Darkness (Lee claimed that the character had dialogue, but it was so bad he refused to speak it). In What We Do in the Shadows, however, we further learn that "Vampires don't do dishes."
With Thor: Ragnarok, directed by the New Zealander Taika Waititi, opening this weekend...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...let's give the nod to Petyr (Ben Fransham), the most forbidding of the vampire roomies in What We Do in the Shadows...
...the horror comedy co-written (with Jemaine Clement), directed by and starring Waititi. This broad, silly mock-documentary was recently recommended to me, and made me laugh a lot.
"Vampires don't chat," said screenwriter Jimmy Sangster, explaining why he didn't write any dialogue for Christopher Lee in 1966's Dracula, Prince of Darkness (Lee claimed that the character had dialogue, but it was so bad he refused to speak it). In What We Do in the Shadows, however, we further learn that "Vampires don't do dishes."
Thursday, May 18, 2017
RED DON
Your Humble Narrator is a bit belated in paying tribute to the great Don Rickles, who passed on last month at 90. So...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...let's acknowledge the ill-fated vampire into which Rickles was transformed in the 1992 John Landis gangster/horror opus Innocent Blood...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...let's acknowledge the ill-fated vampire into which Rickles was transformed in the 1992 John Landis gangster/horror opus Innocent Blood...
Thursday, February 12, 2015
HOLLY GODARKLY
Happy Valentine’s Day this Saturday everybody!
In observance of the day…
Monster-of-the-Week: …our choice this week is Holly, the vampiric central character of Blood and Kisses (Vampire Love Book 1) by J.T. Blackfriars. Available on Kindle, this short e-book—it’s Part One of a promised series—was recommended to me by my pal Barry, who has described it as “Perhaps the best vampire tale since ‘Salem’s Lot.”
Perhaps it is. I confess I dragged my feet a little on the recommendation—the vampire chick-lit genre isn’t a great favorite of mine—but when I finally dug into it, I found it a blast. Holly, who lives right here in a convincingly-depicted Phoenix, hides in plain sight, telling anyone who asks that she’s a vampire, and everyone accepts it, assuming that she’s into role playing. She sleeps in a coffin, works at a convenience store and has friends with benefits, the benefits on her end including both sex and blood donation.
Blackfrairs does a wonderful job of playing by the very traditional vampire rules. Holly has to be invited into a home, said invitation can be effectively revoked, she has to avoid sunlight and she can even shape-shift into a bat (though Blackfriars, like other authors and filmmakers, declines to explain what happens to her clothes during these transformations).
What makes it a Valentine’s choice, you ask? Simple—in the course of the story Holly falls in love, and her choice is about as star-crossed as a lover could get…
But I won’t spoil it. Suffice to say that I’m in fan-girl tizzy, on the edge of my seat for the next installment. At $2.99, the book is a real find.
In observance of the day…
Monster-of-the-Week: …our choice this week is Holly, the vampiric central character of Blood and Kisses (Vampire Love Book 1) by J.T. Blackfriars. Available on Kindle, this short e-book—it’s Part One of a promised series—was recommended to me by my pal Barry, who has described it as “Perhaps the best vampire tale since ‘Salem’s Lot.”
Perhaps it is. I confess I dragged my feet a little on the recommendation—the vampire chick-lit genre isn’t a great favorite of mine—but when I finally dug into it, I found it a blast. Holly, who lives right here in a convincingly-depicted Phoenix, hides in plain sight, telling anyone who asks that she’s a vampire, and everyone accepts it, assuming that she’s into role playing. She sleeps in a coffin, works at a convenience store and has friends with benefits, the benefits on her end including both sex and blood donation.
Blackfrairs does a wonderful job of playing by the very traditional vampire rules. Holly has to be invited into a home, said invitation can be effectively revoked, she has to avoid sunlight and she can even shape-shift into a bat (though Blackfriars, like other authors and filmmakers, declines to explain what happens to her clothes during these transformations).
What makes it a Valentine’s choice, you ask? Simple—in the course of the story Holly falls in love, and her choice is about as star-crossed as a lover could get…
But I won’t spoil it. Suffice to say that I’m in fan-girl tizzy, on the edge of my seat for the next installment. At $2.99, the book is a real find.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
MASSEY APPEAL
RIP to Anna Massey, daughter of Raymond & a prolific actress in her own right, departed at 73. In addition to plenty of highbrow Brit film & TV, she also made a few scary pictures, like Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972), Michael Powell's brilliant-but-unsavory Peeping Tom (1960) &...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...a segment of the 1973 omnibus The Vault of Horror, in which she appeared as a vampire, opposite her brother Daniel Massey. She's this week's honoree. That's her in the middle...
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Monster-of-the-Week: ...a segment of the 1973 omnibus The Vault of Horror, in which she appeared as a vampire, opposite her brother Daniel Massey. She's this week's honoree. That's her in the middle...
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